Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon says that international donor funds provided to the Palestinian Authority are being directly used for incitement and hate education. If the PA wants a state, he said, this had better stop.

In a press conference on Monday, Ayalon took the opportunity to call on Fatah and the Palestinian Authority to stop what he called their "culture of hatred." A spokesman for the London-based TaxPayers' Alliance added that British and European taxpayers should be concerned because their governments provide the Palestinian Authority with tens of millions of dollars each year.

A member of the Israel Our Home party and a former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Ayalon emphasized the fact that hate education and incitement is one of the Palestinian Authority's major problems. "Everyone talks about Hamas, which is obvious," he said, "but the PA, Fatah and [PA leader] Mahmoud Abbas also engage in incitement and have created a 'culture of hate.'"

"The recent Fatah Conference, which we helped facilitate, came out with very negative messages which emphasized education about the [importance of the] armed struggle [against Israel]," the diplomat continued.

"The Fatah Constitution still calls for the eradication of the State of Israel," Ayalon said, "and this was reaffirmed during the recent conference. This is a major problem. As long as Israel is not accepted as a legitimate and natural part of this region then we will not see a desire for peace. If they do not stop incitement, we can't move forward."

(IsraelNationalNews)